Soul Food Love by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams (Clarkson Potter, 2015)

‘Healthy Recipes,’ is the subtitle, ‘Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family,’ and of a refusal, the preface tells us, ever to weigh two hundred pounds. Like the three generations of women cooks that came before Randall Williams. Together with her mother, ‘Baby Girl’ has produced a cookbook that honours the kitchens of her past, but swerves the cuisine “into a new and healthier future.”